The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 26, 1903, Page 7

‘“THE SUNDAY CALL he time ert Renshaw Fsq. e need himself a candidate for e great- er world celebri- pose.” In as Mayor . roville would de which would erefore when Ren- was announced they emselves and with efeat of Renshaw. o advice unless he most part he t fe He looked upon & the rag”’ as & vanity, useless before & man bhas done his job and ruin. ous afterward. He was by temperament & “single-bacded” specialist; what he had o Ceo liked to do alon and no g ons asked d Do tales told. There were es, however, when Rud- erick saw voints for bis own hand in Feners. &.scussion, and “Fritsle,” “Soapy” and “Frenchy” dropped in upon him &t & time when he was meditat! “Fritzie” was the spoke: save Ruderick conclusive Herbert Renshaw Esq ed Mayor of Corn- D ax’ get & . = . X ge . siake Be & ele e 5 . avs e i . . ey P g e AT e o squeeze adlow a e s siness w o ™ Barwood should They simply ot € netiinted the _ SlSctel gan g hells he = - who was determined s0 without great C ft his acces. . . knew whether o which is called . e, xince the charm of ange one in gambled at al . ayor Ren- . king places se he could mnot, strictly to the wherefore willful . r hours in- ste f g But his great evement v of a police 1 N wink wink glorified all his remaining inabilities in Mayor Renshaw's eyes, who begged him to sacrifice himself on the altar of civic duty by accepting an appointment as Chief of Police. Mayor Renshaw said that neither ‘he mnor subordinates should take tithes from the harvest of shame’ and Edwin Cowles sacrificed him- self. Both played their destined part in the realization of the Great Idea. Then was the city of Cornville del into the hands of the three bad men, as the found the Ruderick M f.” he said ed Interview Ruderick began, “I h understand th for & new man for your detective I have had considerable exy 1 the detective business, and should new man, if you're satis- you are owed’ u are certified to as being a very ‘wise’ man,” remarked Mr. Cow.es after a hasty perusal of Ruderick's pa- pers. pose that word ‘wise merely a technical term in police par- lance “That's what it is, Mr. Cowles.’ ou have some a: aintance, have you, with the criminal classes? We very much need a gman who understan the ways of thieves. cou I don’t set myself up as a ipg ext ary, Mr. Cowles, but you've go re those papers. I ertainly cught to know something about Klowd, T'll take your on and notify the ave made applica- crin Well, Mr. M name into co authorities that siderat for the position. I will send you deci: to-morrow Good after- , sir “Good afternoon, Mr. Cowles.” Three later there was astonish- ment, bewilderment and profanity in the der world. Ruderick MeKlowd had been f Detectives in the town e. and the under world won- dered what the appointment meant. Rud- erick Melowd's office was besieged by guns, who desired to know what was what and what was “‘doing.” Among the besiegers were three who had come by special summons. T three bad men were invited into Ruderick’s private of- fice, where, by judicious questioning, were made to declare that thex had hirg whatever “on™ and had not done vy business in the town since the re- dministration went into power, and y had been “ditched” by Rud- k's idea, and were sick of the place to quit it 1 of this Ruderick listened with ness. When they had finished his was exemplary and significant. “Blokes,” he said, “: ain't much on bewin' the rag, but I'm more'n a little glad o w you've told me, 'n’ that you're sick o' the town. I'm particular re not mixed up in that tunnel ss under glar's Bank. The fel- t's done that has got to choke it fl—see? 1 can't stand for it. Anythin’ else ‘ts been done 'fore I got here ain't y o my business. For yourselves, my Chief T f &l you bus! lers Uip as an old pal, since you're sick o' this town, I8 to get shet of it by the next rat- tler. I guess you've made your pile here, anyhow, an’ it's time 't you get your graft in elsewhere. If you sprint you can catch that 7:30 this evenin'. It 'ud give me & pain to see you here after § o'clock to-night long, blokes. Take care o' yourselves One evening—six days and+a fraction, to be accurate, after Ruderick’s historic warning to the three bad men—Judge Barwood was summoned from his bed by an importunate visitor, who made him- self agreeable by opening his business { a retaining fee. credentials. Do you care ric's cre- of $50 notes; the man ance. perbaps 60 years of deformed inordinately great-coated, long-haired to the best of my bellef, your beard, to the best of no! sald the lawyer. er you the beard as a re- vou the bills.” voice in which you offer them from being your own that you ubt whether the bills, how- ine. are gen-u-inely yours.” to be a person of some pene- aid the visitor “If y ad not thought so before you came you would not be here,” said the lawyer So long &s you do not know my real beard and real voice I don't care how well you know my false beard and false voice. As for the money, you may take it or ve it! that's soon said,” replied the law- ver, laying the bills on the table be- tween and his client with a gesture that neither took therms nor left them. “Try a seat,” he sald standing before an open fire. “Take off your coat and hat and make yourself at home.” Judge Barwood had a good gray eye with a twinkle in It and the accent of his invitation was jocular. “I am much more comfortable with them on; the room is cold,” said the vi itor. The thermometer on the jamb of the door registered In the full gaslight 73 degrees. “Just so,” said Barwood appreciatively; “and now about the bsuiness.” “The business is the height of stmplic- ity. 1 have stoien $30,000. For personal reasons 1 object to any one's attempting to pursue me and to take away the money The visitor also had a good gray eye. “And that's a very natural objection, too,” sald the man of law. “The plainest way to avold it is to send the money It I had been looking for the plainest way 1 should not have had to come to your Honor for advice. The two pairs of good, gray eyes looked into one another with appreciation. ““This,” sald the Judge, “looks like \shy business. And what is very much to the point in an affair of this magni- tude, that bundle of notes on the table is too small to be loockéd at without dis- cemfort.” “That bundle of notes is not a small fee for listening to me tell you that I heve stolen $0,000. That is all I have *asked for it, When you have told me Low to keep the fifty thousand the bune dle on-the table will be bigger.” “It would have to be a great deal big- ger.” “Would it set a limit to its bigness it the man out {l whom the fifty thousand comes has dohe you dirt?” There were not a great many men in Cornville fgom whom fifty thousand could be lifted. Barwood's face took on a look of intense interest. 3 “Nct Englar?” “Englar.” Barwood's face broadened into a grim sn:ile. You are quite resolved not to be advis- el to put the money back?" “Quite.” “It is really my duty to urge the point.” “You have urged it Barwood, with a grim smile still linger- ing on his face, strode for a time up and doswn the room. He came at last to a halt in his former station before the fire. "Could you steal any more?™ he asked gravely, “How much more, for sxample?™ *““Well, say a second fifty thousand. You eould bhardly make a deal with less.” “I have stolen a second fifty thousand sald the visitor, drawing a considerable parcel from under his cloak and laying it on the table. “I calculated myself that it would take just about a second Afty to protect the first.” “You seem to be & client of great fore- thought,” said the lawyer. “It needs a client of great forsthought to employ an attorney of greal penetra- tion,” said the visitor. “It is only left to settle whers and when I am to let you know what I have done. 1 suppose you can trust yourself not to ot caught.” d Barwood. This was unkind; the powers that rule were become & joke in Cormville, and Renshaw, who had been Barwood's rival, was the point of the joke. “I can trust myself & good deal better not to get caught If T don't trust any one else with my address. When I waat to know what you have done I will come and ask you. Good night, Mr. Attorney.” “Good night, Mr. Scamp.” The two men parted with mutual re- spect and good will Barwood had made it & point of con- science in the conduct of his life, when he had a thing to do which was agresable to himseif and disagreeabls to some one else, never to procrastinate. There was besides another reason in the present case for dispatch. It did not enter into his views for his client that Richard Englar should not have a chance to keep his loss unknown. “Mr. Englar,” he sald, with the regret which & man throws into his veice when he speaks of the misfortune of & per- sonal enemy, “I am infcrmed that you have just been robbed of a hundred thou- sand. A man so bt led up that I could name nothing of h ited me at my house just now and told me so; he added that you could not find him, and that if you did find him the money would be either dissipated or spent In conducting his defense. If you guarantes to make no effort to find him and to keep the affair out of the hands of the St . offers you $25,000; $25.000 to take or leave. I don’t know whether this offer is real either, nor how he expects you to get the money. Certainly he gave me no name or address. He told me nothing but what I state and ok his leave. I made no a on him. I didr of you new D shing tve you nor our £ distin- There s, ttle more to tell. Englar an Directors had @ meeting before daylight that morning, ascertained th and passed get _the thie that they slip thro for the pres hey resolved the loss concealed 2 the State rwood and fent, iIf his clfe ould cation with ad taken his offer under advisement; y they em- ployed one Ruderick McKlowd to find cut what 1 about the robb Judge Barwood's did not at time again en Him, and tunnel, by means of w been entered, Gannes, with panions named Wa spectively; bu that they we in dete at t broken into. . Of their release nc k was as big e Front Office, Englar sa an ass as of t and must urned c be he could not ma N g as a The directors sulted with J ed him to potify should again e with him, Some days afterws selves, their heirs client ner a form wh worth 325,000 to h itor, and in ar paid that am Two nights home from his office in lusk when a qua~ vering voice demande The speaker was a patched attered fig- wild-eyed and ure; a deérepit wild-haired. “It's only a drink I want,” repeated the beggar as he shuffled along at Bar- wood's side. “You see 't I'm no llar—I don’t want nothin’ to eat. [ want & drink. It only costs a dime, boss.” They had reached a stretch of fleld through which Barwood was wont to make a short cut to his home; and as he left the sidewalk and turned into the fleld path the beggar suddenly straightened himself, dropped the wk in his volce and, tapping Barwood familiarly on the shouider, sald: “I say, Mr. Attorney, DT e Tt asrecmant that o malls for me with Englar.” A fortnight later Ruderick was dis- charged from the Cornville force for drunkenness and incompetence. The ex- pectations he jad raised when Chief Cowles engaged him ad not fulfilled. Upon his discharge paild a .visit to Chicago, where he kept a safe deposit vault, in which he placed, among other things, the agreement which Judge Bar- wood had obtained for his unknown ciient. This was the finishing touch in the realization of the Great Idea. The World’s Wealth. A writer in one of the recent magazines gives some interesting fa concerntng the distribution of the world's wea!th among the different nasions. Tha total wealth of the world ) stimated at $400,000 part is owned by peans, the Unite the neighborno: sne-fourth of t the United shares of Engl ‘s estimated at than $60,000,000. of $16400,000,000—abowE weaith of combining the d Ireland, : little less making Great Britain the richest of European natisns.- France comes naxt, property amounting to $45,000,000.000 in our money. Germany's ~artion is about $40,000,000.060 and Itus- wia’'s $32.000.0.0.000.— W ashington Star.